I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.

You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy best among miners; and so with everything else.

Dispel not, the happy delusions of children.

Not all that is presented to us as history has really happened; and what really happened did not actually happen the way it is presented to us; moreover, what really happened is only a small part of all that happened. Everything in history remains uncertain, the largest events as well as the smallest occurrence.

There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.

A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.

Only the soul that loves is happy